Garbage was formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1993. The band was founded by producer and drummer Butch Vig, who had gained fame for producing Nirvana’s iconic album Nevermind. Garbage is known for blending a variety of genres, including rock, electronic, and alternative music. Since their formation, they have released several albums, such as their self-titled debut in 1995, Version 2.0, Beautiful Garbage, and more, contributing significantly to the alternative rock landscape of the 1990s and 2000s. The band has experienced consistent success over the years, receiving multiple Grammy Award nominations and achieving platinum sales with their albums. They are also The post Complete List Of Garbage Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Most Americans are so dissatisfied with the economy that they think the nation is already in recession. Yet the Biden administration often cites robust job growth as proof that the economy is in great shape.  New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia throw cold water on that claim, however. It shows recent job growth has been 80% less than previously estimated. Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces an estimate for the number of payrolls that businesses added, or subtracted, on net balance. According to those reports, annualized job growth in the last quarter of 2023 was a healthy 1.6%. But that’s likely way off. The Philadelphia Fed takes these data from BLS and compares them with a much more comprehensive estimate of the labor market each quarter. That allows for better estimates of job growth than can be gleaned from the monthly BLS reports. Instead of the 1.6% growth rate previously estimated, the analysis from the Philadelphia Fed showed an anemic 0.3% annualized rate. That difference of just 1.3 percentage points may not sound like much, but it’s a significant gap. In a country of more than 330 million people and more than 150 million jobs on businesses’ payrolls, this amounts to more than half a million jobs. In other words, more than 500,000 jobs that were supposedly added to the economy in the last quarter of 2023 never even existed. Even more troubling, the previous two quarterly reports from the Philadelphia Fed also pointed to overestimation of payroll growth by the monthly job reports. This all adds up to a labor market that is less healthy than what is reported in the news headlines. Disturbingly, there are other official economic metrics that also seem to have deviated from reality in the past few years. In addition to job estimates, the BLS also updates the consumer price index (CPI) each month, a tool used to measure inflation and the cost of living. Some components of the CPI, however, are no longer reflective of the costs faced by the typical American today. For example, the monthly mortgage payment on a median price home in May was 119.5% higher than it was in January 2021—more than double in less than three-and-a-half years. But according to the CPI, shelter costs are only up about 22%. The official metric is off by roughly a factor of five. The magnitude of this error is illustrated by the fact that a family will pay almost $14,000 more each year, for 30 years, to afford the same house from January 2021, when the Biden administration took the helm of the nation’s economy. When jobs are being overestimated and the cost of living underestimated, it’s no wonder people have soured on Bidenomics. Anytime the picture being painted by official data is not reflective of widespread perception, then those data deserve extra scrutiny. In this case, the initial economic data being widely reported are clearly misleading. The massive discrepancies occurring between official data and people’s opinion of the economy are not due to Americans’ having “wrong” feelings about their finances, or a lack of understanding as some pundits keep asserting. Rather, some of the official metrics do not align with reality. Although empirical analysis is considered more objective than something so fickle and ethereal as people’s feelings on a topic, that assumes the empirical analysis is underpinned by reliable data. Take away that assumption and hard data loses its advantage when assessing economic conditions. It’s like gauging the temperature of a room not by observing a faulty thermometer, but by asking the occupants how they feel—and people feel frigid about this economy. Originally published at FoxBusiness.com The post Why We’re Adding Far Fewer Jobs Than the White House Claims appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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American geologist Frank Kimbler ,passionate about ufology, has been searching with a metal detector since 2010 the area around the town of Roswell in New Mexico, famous for the fact that a strange object fell from the sky there in 1947. Officially, the US authorities stated that it was a secret military weather balloon that monitored nuclear weapons tests. However, most ufologists and ordinary people believe that an alien ship with a crew crashed there. That the wreckage of the ship was taken away by the military and subsequently carefully studied, and among the crew there were one or two survivors, who were then interrogated and received a lot of valuable information from them. Metal fragments found at 1947 crash site. This theory is supported by the words of several dozen people, some of whom, as they say, were involved in transporting the debris, studying the bodies of the dead crew , or even talked with a surviving alien. But alas, words are just words, and physical evidence of the reality of the Roswell UFO crash has not yet been presented to the public. However, Frank Kimbler’s discovery may finally get the ball rolling. Over 14 years of searching, Frank found more than 20 unusual pieces of metal here. Very small, no larger than a fingernail, but chemical analysis of the most unusual of them showed that it was 100% pure aluminum. Such pure aluminum does not exist in nature, and high-purity aluminum is used mainly in the space industry, and with the development of computer technology, it is used in hard drives. If just a weather balloon, that is, a balloon with sensors, had actually crashed in Roswell, where would the purity of the aluminum come from? It is believed that it is not usually used in probes, it is too expensive, even in military applications. Especially in those distant years. The story of Frank Kimbler and his strange discovery was recently featured in the documentary series Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction on the Discovery Channel. Frank Kimbler Experts who studied one of the pieces said it provided “convincing evidence” that aliens actually crashed in the area decades ago. According to show host Chrissy Newton, a former Pentagon ufologist (she did not name him) told her that similar pieces of pure aluminum were found at other UFO crash sites. Kimbler, who teaches geology at the New Mexico Military Institute when he’s not searching for UFO debris, says he pulled this particular piece out of an anthill in a field near Roswell. He says that ants have long been known for bringing small pieces of gold, copper, nickel, bronze and other minerals into their anthills, and people who were looking for these deposits often stirred up anthills to see if there was anything in these places. something valuable. Kimbler also admits that not all of the strange debris he found could be from a UFO. It is quite possible that some of them are simply rubbish left by tourists. But some things may be “very interesting.” Tom Hossain, chief scientist at Cerium Labs, where Kimbler’s sample was tested, said not only is the piece of aluminum unusual in its purity, but it is also different from the industrial aluminum used in various industries. “Most of the aluminum used is anodized aluminum,” says Hossain. Anodizing is an electrochemical process that transforms a metal surface into a decorative, durable, and corrosion-resistant coating known as anodic oxide. This protects the metal underneath this finish from corrosion due to reaction with oxygen molecules present in both the air and water. Hossein also revealed that the fragment is not an alloy, but actually pure aluminum. According to eyewitnesses of the events in Roswell, at the crash site they found pieces of metal that crumpled quite well, but at the same time returned to its previous shape. There are also known photos from Roswell, where the military examines what looks like pieces of foil. It was later stated that these were parts of a weather balloon. But if the piece of aluminum Kimbler found is part of this “foil”, then this probe would be worth a fortune. It is difficult and expensive to produce such pure aluminum. And what purpose did pure aluminum serve in the probe? None of this makes any sense if it was just a weather balloon. The post Strange debris in Roswell may prove 1947 UFO crash appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Way back in the 1980s, when this writer was doing the traditional “go-to-college-and-reject-Christianity” thing, a friend was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood. As a good friend would, I attended the newly ordained’s first Sunday at his new parish on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Something he said in his sermon that day has lodged in my memory as a sort of theological Occam’s Razor. It was this simple claim: No other religion has anything like the Incarnation. Forty years later, my friend's sermon leads me to conclude that there are really only two religions in the world: that of the Incarnation and and that which I call, for lack of a better word, “Ignosticism." As I noted, at the time, there was an active spiritual rebellion going on in my heart, so I immediately rejected this idea. When we went out for lunch after that service, we argued about it. It was not the end of our friendship (that came later, for other reasons) but it was the beginning of my return to the Church. The Christian claim that God became man is not repeated anywhere else in humanity's shared religious history. Yes, there are places in world mythology where a divinity has appeared on earth as if human. There are places in world religion where a divinity is banished or condemned to life as a mortal human for a time or to a mortal life leading to a mortal death. There are religions where the divine “inhabits” their clergy or “possesses” the devotees. There are religions in which a divinity mates with a human woman giving rise to a demigod. And there are far more religions in which divinity stands apart from humanity, only sometimes deigning to help or antagonize it. But only Christianity has a God who takes on a human nature; a God who remains infinite spirit while becoming finite flesh and blood. Only the Christian God has entered the world of change and time that we inhabit and passed through it as one of us — while still remaining in the infinite now. This is the Christian difference. My friend was correct.The longer I remain a student of comparative religion, the more truths I can discern in other paths. At the same time, I'm more aware that it is the fatal absence of the Incarnation that makes those paths dead ends. Yes, there is more or less of the truth in each path, but all truth anywhere is the God who said ‘I am the Truth’. If that truth has not incarnated in the flesh for us, it’s only a way-pointer, not the way itself. There is more or less truth in various places, but it’s not, if you will, living up to its vocation. What is true about Islam and Judaism and various forms of paganism is true only insofar as it points you in the right direction. It is not in itself salvific. For salvation you need to meet the truth in the person of Jesus Christ. Forty years later, my friend's sermon leads me to conclude that there are really only two religions in the world: that of the Incarnation and and that which I call, for lack of a better word, “Ignosticism." I don't mean "gnosticism." That word has become too identified with specific historical Christian heresies. "Agnosticism" isn't quite right either.This neologism, “Ignosticism,” means exactly “making a religion of ignorance."The Church says that the son of God, Jesus, the impoverished itinerant preacher from Nazareth, is not only the Divine Incarnation, but also the very logos through whom God the Father created everything that is. Thus, to willfully ignore the Incarnation is to fail to understand anything in its fullness. We can know what things are made of, we can know how they are made and what they do, but, without the fullness of the logos in our worldview, we can never know what things actually are. The meaning of everything is there to be seen, but only if you are willing to see it. This applies not only to other religions but also to the dominant "religion" of our day: scientism. For all of our advances in technology and the mastery over the world they grant us, we seem to be moving farther and farther away from reality. Witness our current inability to come agreement on matters as basic as sexual difference or whether a fetus is alive. The confusion is only likely to worsen as Christianity gets pushed to the side. The God of Abraham has entered time and space as a crying, incontinent baby. When we no longer know that, we can know nothing of any real worth at all.

In the 1978 remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” the great Donald Sutherland (who died yesterday at 88) plays Matthew Bennell, a San Francisco health inspector. He’s a bureaucrat, but one with a sense of humor who never forgets that he, like the restaurant owners he visits, is only human.Bennell’s faith in the system is such that when his colleague Elizabeth (Brooke Adams) starts sensing that the people around them — including her husband, Geoffrey — are changing in disturbing ways, his first impulse is to suggest she see his psychiatrist friend, Dr. David Kibner. Maybe Geoffrey's simply become a Republican, Bennell jokes.Bennell soon comes around to Elizabeth's theory: strange, plant-like aliens are taking over people's bodies and duplicating them; the duplicates then work to assimilate their friends and loved ones. They won't stop until the whole planet is theirs. The original 1958 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" famously lends itself to dueling interpretations: the all-consuming collective coming for our heroes can represent either Communism or the anti-Communist hysteria of McCarthyism.What's brilliant about Kaufman's update is the way it transplants this creeping conformism to the "free-spirited" milieu of Me-Generation California. When Elizabeth does meet Kibner (at a book release party for his latest pop psychology bestseller), he's comforting another woman who claims her husband is not himself. Kibner comforts her with meaningless therapeutic babble until she reluctantly overcomes her instinctive sense that something is deeply wrong. Perfectly cast as Kibner is Leonard Nimoy. Nimoy brings a little of Spock's inhuman rigidness to the role, although the logic this character adheres to is that of 1970s self-help. Kibner is one of the first in their group to turn and emerges as a major antagonist; it's one of the movie's better jokes that it's difficult to tell the real Kibner from the pod-person duplicate. "There's no need for hate now. Or love," he says toward the end, urging our heroes to succumb. "Don't be trapped by old concepts, Matthew, you're evolving into a new lifeform." For those of us wary of the many ways life in America has been deformed and degraded by the mania for "progress," those are chilling words indeed.

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Since Apple acquired Beats in 2014, Cupertino has taken a long road until it got the core of Beats right. While the music company was a fundamental part of Apple's now-successful music streaming service, we couldn't say the same about its product lineup. For almost a decade, Beats headphones and earbuds were confusing to choose from. Some offered Apple custom audio chips, while others focused on Android. In between, the company would keep updating old headphones and earbuds with special collaborations. Over the past few years, it seems Beats has been cleaning up its lineup to offer its most consistent products to date. With the release of Beats Solo Buds, I think the company has finally achieved that, as it is now delivering a consistent sound throughout its lineup, in addition to fair prices and well-made products. This is our Beats headphones buying guide, which will help you find the best Beats product for your needs at the best price. Beats Solo Buds: Something to begin with Image source: José Adorno for BGR Beats Solo Buds are the latest addition to the Beats lineup. By replacing the 2021 Beats Studio Buds, the company focused on offering a great price point for those looking for affordable earbuds that still sound good. Although they lack some of Beats' signature bass, they last up to 18 hours on a single charge, have a very thin charging case, and offer great features for both Apple and Android devices. All of that for $79.99. Who should get these earbuds: Those looking for affordable earbuds without losing comfort and sound quality with style. Read our Beats Solo Buds review Beats Studio Buds+: The best cost-benefit Image source: José Adorno for BGR Of all Beats earbuds and headphones, Beats Studio Buds+ are my favorite choice. Released in 2023, it improves all the weak features of the first Studio Buds earbuds. It has a cool design, a similar sound quality to the AirPods Pro 2, and costs way less than Apple's premium earbuds. With up to nine hours of listening time (and 36 hours when charging it with the case), it seems these earbuds never let you down. They cost $169.95, but they're often heavily discounted now. Who should get these earbuds: Those looking for a product with AirPods Pro 2-like sound quality but with a different design and more affordable price. Read our Beats Studio Buds+ review Beats Fit Pro: Beats' AirPods Pro competitor Image source: Christian de Looper for BGR One of the oldest products in the Beats lineup, the Beats Fit Pro, was released in 2021. At the time, it was the best alternative for those who found AirPods Pro uncomfortable. It has the same features but more battery and a different fit wing design. Beats Fit Pro is one of the best earbuds available in the market. They cost $199.95 but are usually available for $50 less. Who should get these earbuds: Those looking for the same audio quality as AirPods Pro but with an improved design and comfort. Read our Beats Fit Pro review here Beats Solo 4: Big sound, great comfort Image source: José Adorno for BGR Beats is back on its roots with Beats Solo 4. It offers the new signature Beats sound, which focuses on bass while still delivering clean vocals and rich sound. With up to 50 hours of wireless listening (or endless time with a wired connection), these headphones are similar to what you'd expect from a Beats product but with a way better construction. They're available for $199.99 but are usually found at lower prices. Who should get these headphones: Beats Solo 4 offers big sound at an affordable price; however, it only has passive noise cancellation. Read our Beats Solo 4 review here Beats Studio Pro: Everything you want Image source: José Adorno for BGR As I mentioned before, all of these earbuds and headphones have a similar sound, which I think is great. Consistency is the keyword for this new Beats era. However, what's the difference between all of these products? The perks they offer. With Beats Studio Pro, you'll get ANC, Transparency, Spatial Audio with Dynamic Head-Tracking, and Profile Modes for different moments, such as playing a game, watching a movie, or listening to your favorite song. These headphones are all about the details and great battery life. They're available for $349.99 but are usually found at lower prices. Who should get these headphones: Beats Studio Pro offers the ultimate Beats experience with every key feature you might desire. It has some functions that even AirPods Max lacks—and it costs way more. 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